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The international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP has announced that it has opened an office in St. Petersburg, Russia. The office initially is being staffed by three attorneys all of whom have been previously associated with Coudert Brothers in St. Petersburg.
The St. Petersburg team includes counsels Alexander A. Kalinov and Konstantin A. Osipov...

Proskauer Rose LLP announced that David Pratt has been named a partner in the firm's Boca Raton office. The founder and head of Pratt & Bucher LLP, a Boca Raton estate andtax planning firm,Mr. Pratt joins Proskauer's Personal Planning Department and will focus his practice on estate, trust and tax planning.

Twenty attorneys from Fox Rothschild LLP have been chosen as "the best" in the nation by their fellow attorneys for publication in The Best Lawyers in America 2006. TheBest Lawyers lists, representing 57 specialties in all 50 states and Washington, DC, are compiled through an exhaustive peer-review survey in which thousands of the top lawyers in the U.S....

WolfBlock has announced that real estate lawyer Susan R. Rubright has joined the firm as a partner in the Environmental and Land Use practice group in the Roseland, NJ office.
Ms. Rubright represents public entities in general land use, real estate and municipal matters and represents private applicants before planning and zoning boards.
Lynne Z. Gold-...

Duplicating USA, a leading litigation support company headquartered at 219 East 44th Street, New York City, has announced that it will be changing its company name to Datum Legal as of January 1, 2006 . The new name reflects the company's transformation over the last five years from a paper-based services company into the highly technical, state-of-the-art...

Wiley Rein & Fielding (WRF) has announced that Craig A. Berrington, senior vice president and general counsel of the American Insurance Association (AIA), will join the firm as a partner in its nationally recognized Insurance Practice on January 1.

Wolters Kluwer Corporate & Financial Services recently announced the acquisition of Tripoint Systems Development Corporation of Chicago. Tripoint will become part of CT Corporation, a Wolters Kluwer company.

The Hon. James H. Coleman, retired justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, and Melville D. Miller Jr., president of Legal Services of New Jersey, presented the Somerville law firm Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, P.A. with an Equal Justice Medal at the recent Equal Justice Awards Reception.

St. John & Wayne LLP has announced that Brian L. Petrequin has become a partner of the firm.
Mr. Petrequin concentrates his practice in the areas of corporate law, corporate finance, lender's counsel, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property law, and Internet law. He regularly represents public and private corporations, banks and other...

Nixon Peabody LLP has announced that Rosalyn P. Mitchell, an experienced commercial litigator, has rejoined the firm's San Francisco office as counsel in the Business Litigation practice group.
Ms. Mitchell has represented numerous clients in lawsuits in both federal and California state courts in a variety of commercial litigation matters including...

The National Arbitration Forum (NAF) will hold a Second Annual New Jersey No-Fault Settlement Week December 12-16 for parties with legal disputes filed under the New Jersey No-Fault PIP Insurance Arbitration Program.
NAF will encourage parties and their attorneys during this week to identify cases involving medical reimbursements for injuries suffered in...

Thomas J. Jennings, Special Counsel in the Environmental Department in the Philadelphia office of Saul Ewing LLP, was elected vice chair of the Bucks County International Trade Council (BCITC), at the annual meeting held at the Keystone Industrial Port Complex in Fairless Hills.
The BCITC is a non-profit organization established in 1993 with the support...

Lawrence A. Goldman, a directorin the Corporate Department of Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, has been appointed chairman of the Small Business Committee of the American Bar Association's Business Law Section for a three year term.

Goodwin Procter LLP has announced that a team of attorneysfrom Boston-based law firm Palmer & Dodge have joined the firm's Intellectual Property Litigation Practice in Boston.
Goodwin Procter's Intellectual Property Litigation Practice and the team from Palmer & Dodge have one large client in common, Teva Pharmaceuticals Inc., which is among the...

J. Donald Tierney recently joined Cozen O'Connor's New York Downtown office as of counsel. In this position, Mr. Tierney will monitor litigation management guideline compliance, participate in alternative dispute resolution programs, including arbitration and mediation, and serve as a mentor to firm attorneys.
During the past 18 years, Mr. Tierney has...

LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell has created a free online service that enables its law firm customers to maximize the value of their Martindale-Hubbell listings by making quick updates to their content on martindale.com and lawyers.com.

Holland & Knight LLP has announced the launch of its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Team, a subgroup of Holland & Knight's White Collar Defense & Corporate Compliance Team. The FCPA Team will be led out of the firm's Washington, DC office by partner Don Zarin who recently joined the firm.

King & Spalding LLP has announced that Daniel R. Rogers, a lawyer with extensive experience with acquisitions and financings in the energy industry, has joined the firm as a partner resident in the firm's Houston office.
Mr. Rogers brings to the firm a vast background of counseling clients on the acquisition, development, project financing and...

Integrity Interactive has announced a complete suite of online training courses designed to meet the new California sexual harassment two-hour training requirement for supervisors. Leveraging the success of Integrity's interactive story-based methodology, the new suite of courses helps companies to meet the statutory requirement to provide training to...

With the health care industry becoming increasingly complex, professionals in this industry are required to know the latest trends, ensure regulatory compliance and manage litigation. With this in mind, Thomson West has announced an enhanced collection of health care information resources on Westlaw that professionals need to manage legal, compliance and...